By David Crystal

New from Cambridge University Press!

By Peter Mark Roget

This book "supplies a vocabulary of English words and idiomatic phrases 'arranged … according to the ideas which they express'. The thesaurus, continually expanded and updated, has always remained in print, but this reissued first edition shows the impressive breadth of Roget's own knowledge and interests."

The papers in this volume focus on notions which are central to the work ofJohn M. Anderson the founder of Dependency Phonology and to phonologicaltheory: the idea of structural analogy between phonology and syntax; thehead/dependent relation; the idea that phonological representations arebest conceived of in terms of a set of privative elements (rather than asbinary-valued features); and the related notions of contrastivity andspecification (and non-specification). An important issue dealt with is therelationship between specification and derivationality, and the questionwhether derivations are necessary in phonological theory. Many of thecontributions provide sound empirical support for the appeal to elementsand to headhood at all levels of phonological analysis. The book will be ofinterest to anyone interested in current issues in phonological theory.